There is also Magic Wormhole [1] which is not in-browser. [1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
There is: https://wormhole.app/ for the browser if one needs it.
Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
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#12It's so strange that this should have been a solved problem decades ago, but somehow a robust and secure non-commercial solution never gets off the ground. Speaking of which, how is the IPFS project doing these days?
It was solved a decade ago, BitTorrent protocol
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#13It's so strange that this should have been a solved problem decades ago, but somehow a robust and secure non-commercial solution never gets off the ground. Speaking of which, how is the IPFS project doing these days?
Peer to peer sharing doesn't really have much opportunity for commercialization. The closest thing I can think of is bluetooth file sharing, which can still be a painful experience in some circumstances
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#14I really like PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
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#15I really like PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
Heh, seeing PairDrop motivated me to make sth similar, but more as a toy/exercise in messing with idiosyncratic/home cooked software:
https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/
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#16I wish there was a way to do local peer discovery with WebRTC. Right now both endpoints need an active Internet connection and a shared identifier (in this case a special URL) in order to find each other. Can't do offline local sharing.
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#17rather worried that it's going to go the same fate as ShareDrop ( https://github.com/ShareDropio/sharedrop ) and Snapdrop ( https://github.com/SnapDrop/snapdrop ) where they recently got taken over by LimeWire the crypto/AI company.
I wonder how much LimeWire pays to buy all of these foss projects, must be a decent amount if everyone is selling his solution
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#18There is also Magic Wormhole [1] which is not in-browser. [1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
There is: https://wormhole.app/ for the browser if one needs it.
Other readers, please do note that (the unfortunately named) wormhole.app is unrelated to the frequently recommended, heavily peer-reviewed and much longer-standing magic-wormhole.
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#19There is also Magic Wormhole [1] which is not in-browser. [1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
And https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william which is a Go reimplementation of the client. I only want to point this out specifically because an apt-install of magic-wormhole on Ubuntu 24.04 actually results in a program that does not work (the beauty of python dependencies at play?)
It's really amazing to me how successful Python has been given its dependency management and package installation tooling
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#20kids these days... in my time, we used to know each other's IP addresses and just used netcat
In my time, we used to bring floppies to the schoolyard and just swap them.